--- title: Psalms 39:12 — With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Tho… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity. Who acts: Thou, beauty, man. Psalms 39:12 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/39/) / 39:12 # Psalms 39:12 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** Thou, beauty, man · **What happens:** chasten, make, consume away, be · **To what, where:** man, beauty, vanity This is Psalms 39:12 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Thou, beauty, man — and what happens in the verse to man, beauty, vanity, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 150 chapters of Psalms on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת עַל־עָוֺ֨ן ׀ יִסַּ֬רְתָּ אִ֗ישׁ וַתֶּ֣מֶס כָּעָ֣שׁ חֲמוּד֑וֹ אַ֤ךְ הֶ֖בֶל כָּל־אָדָ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃ [With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.650/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:PSA:602 # text = בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת עַל־עָוֺ֨ן ׀ יִסַּ֬רְתָּ אִ֗ישׁ וַתֶּ֣מֶס כָּעָ֣שׁ חֲמוּד֑וֹ אַ֤ךְ הֶ֖בֶל כָּל־אָדָ֣ם סֶֽלָה׃ # verse = PSA.39.12 1-2 בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 בְּֽ בְּ ADP _ _ 2 case _ Gloss=with|Ref=PSA_39:12!1|MId=o190390120011|Strong=0871a 2 תוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת תּוֹכַחַת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 6 obl _ Gloss=rebukes|Ref=PSA_39:12!1|MId=o190390120012|Strong=8433a 3 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 4 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=PSA_39:12!2|MId=o190390120021|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No 4 עָוֺ֨ן עָוֺן NOUN _ Number=Sing 6 obl _ Gloss=iniquity|Ref=PSA_39:12!3|MId=o190390120031|Strong=5771 5 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 4 punct _ Ref=PSA_39:12!3 6 יִסַּ֬רְתָּ יָסַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=you.have.disciplined|Ref=PSA_39:12!4|MId=o190390120041|Strong=3256|Frame=A0:190390080041;A1:190390120051;|Type=qatal 7 אִ֗ישׁ אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 obj _ Gloss=a.person|Ref=PSA_39:12!5|MId=o190390120051|Strong=0376 8-9 וַתֶּ֣מֶס _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_39:12!6|MId=o190390120061|Strong=2050b 9 תֶּ֣מֶס מָסָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2 6 conj _ Gloss=you.have.melted|Ref=PSA_39:12!6|MId=o190390120062|Strong=4529|Frame=AA:190390080041;A0:190390120081;|Type=wayyiqtol 10-12 כָּעָ֣שׁ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 כָּ כְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=like|Ref=PSA_39:12!7|MId=o190390120071|Strong=3509a 11 ה הַ DET _ PronType=Art 12 det _ Gloss=(the)|Ref=PSA_39:12!7|MId=o190390120071ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article 12 עָ֣שׁ עָשׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 9 obl _ Gloss=moth|Ref=PSA_39:12!7|MId=o190390120072|Strong=6211 13-14 חֲמוּד֑וֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 חֲמוּד חָמַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 9 obj _ Gloss=his.desired|Ref=PSA_39:12!8|MId=o190390120081|Strong=2530|Type=participle_passive 14 ֑וֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ Gloss=[thing]|Ref=PSA_39:12!8|MId=o190390120082|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 15 אַ֤ךְ אַךְ ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=[is].only|Ref=PSA_39:12!9|MId=o190390120091|Strong=0389|Type=affirmation 16 הֶ֖בֶל הֶבֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Gloss=vanity|Ref=PSA_39:12!10|MId=o190390120101|Strong=1892 17 כָּל־ כֹּל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Gloss=all|Ref=PSA_39:12!11|MId=o190390120111|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No 18 אָדָ֣ם אָדָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 compound:smixut _ Gloss=humankind|Ref=PSA_39:12!12|MId=o190390120121|Strong=0120 19 סֶֽלָה סֶלָה INTJ _ _ 6 parataxis _ Gloss=Selah|Ref=PSA_39:12!13|MId=o190390120131|Strong=5542|Type=interjection|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=PSA_39:12!13 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יִסַּרְתָּ *you have disciplined* | qatal · piel | | אִישׁ *a person* | | | | תֶּמֶס *you have melted* | wayyiqtol · hiphil | חֲמוּד *his desired* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## The Targum {#onkelos} בְּמַכְסְנוּתָא עַל חוֹבָא יִתְרְדֵי בַּר נָשָׁא וּמַסְיַת הֵיךְ עַמַר דְאִתְגַרְדֵם גוּשְׁמֵיהּ בְּרַם לְמָא כָּל בַּר נְשָׁא לְעַלְמָא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [With rebukes dost Thou chasten man for iniquity, and like a moth Thou makest his beauty to consume away; surely every man is vanity.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.650/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc:PSA:602`. - ← previous: [Psalms 39:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.11/) - next →: [Psalms 39:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.13/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/39/)